Documenting tools necessary for GCC [draft]

[Fergus Henderson]

On 01-Jun-2003, Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> 
> > I'd really like this to state a POSIX compliant shell, and list the exact
> > POSIX spec (and year) that OS's must adhere to.
> 
> Not good enough.  [...] you can find blatant
> semantic or even syntactic incompatibilities between shells or Make
> implementations that claim to be POSIX compliant.

Sure, but you can find blatant incompatibilities between different C
compilers too... why is writing shell code or make code that conforms
to the POSIX spec any harder than writing C code which conforms to
the C standard?

-- 
Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au>  |  "I have always known that the pursuit
The University of Melbourne         |  of excellence is a lethal habit"
WWW: <http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~fjh>  |     -- the last words of T. S. Garp.